Bedside Watchman WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

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October 8th -- Philippians 2
WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION

GOD requires men to do their part as the condition and means of enabling Him to work out His purpose with and concerning them. It is a principle illustrated throughout the entire course of scripture, culminating in the command to work out our own salvation (Philippians 2:12), coupled with the assurance that God works with and in us to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is a noble and beneficent principle, tending to keep back man from presumption, and to prevent him from abusing God's help to his own destruction. It preserves the place for faith and wholesome activity, while giving us the comfort of divine co-operation in all that we do according to His will.

ROBERT ROBERTS, The Ways of Providence, pages 124-125